Show t A JUNE 01 WEALTH SUJBBIJTC KOIUIS A BOAAKZA FOR STROAGJUUIEB IWO3IE JT2io Expert TTasscuso Can Readily Earn Tvrciitjr Hollar Per AVcclc Dot SIte Must Study Her Pro cs Kicm Thoroughly and Have as Much Skill as Strength I am thinking1 seriously of becom ing a masseuse one society woman confided to another as she slowly sip pod her bouillon I have just been L talking 10 the woman who rubs meA j me-A < and learned from her some professional secret Have you an idea of what he cai earn I know mine makes 250 every morning from me and she only rubs for thirty minutes was the reply That as exactly the price and time my woman gets continued the first speaker and that in itself mounts 7ip to 51750 a week Now that amount is only the result from one customer I i asked mine this morning how many pther women she attended Four be I i I y I I 3 BEFORE Side yourself lie answered they are treated as regular patients and a case every day or two from the doctors If you are quick at mathematics you find she makes an income which any bread winner would be proud to own Yes said the listener that is 70 a week to count on not lo speak of the doctors patients Can she support sup-port this record very long The masseuse can Keep it up easily for her muscles are of steel and her constitution needs no bylaw or amendments As for retaining that number of customers she finds little difficulty for women especially those Jn society have fully realized the tnor mous advantage of the science I asked her what her greatest record rec-ord was and I i found that she had in a busy season worked five thours a day for ten days Again use your multiplication multi-plication < rules and you find her in the snug little sum of 520500 Not so bad chT chTThis J This work was of course an abnormal r ab-normal strain which she could not have borne any length of time She nuch prefers to jog along on a sure 70 per week or a possible 590 FJuniH From the 1Iiysician Every now and tihen she says the octors with Whom the masseuse stf nd in turn over a rich patient who is convalescing and needs treatment That means a big extra checlc Women who 3iave sprained arms or ankles k AFTER tome under the physicians list of these who require massage For instance there was Iiss Pauline Whitney daughter to the ex secretary You remember when she sprained her ankle so seriously down atGeorge Vanderbllts place in North Carolina My masseuse treated herr Y her-r a month She visited Miss Whitney Whit-ney twice a day for fifteen minutes charging 300 treatment a The secretary sec-retary put his signature to a check nr Z180 for that bit of work Still it was not an unreasonable charge for the rubbing did more than the doctor massage being the only salve that can relieve the pain of a twisted ankle Little Competition But why interposed the other woman why is it there is not more competition I hail to search days be fore finding a capable woman and ended end-ed by putting the case in the hands or our family physician I k I In every other profession for women even wfaere a miserable pittance ot 150 a week is earned the supply fat I exceeds the demand Hundreds or I ablebodied women are softening their i muscles by confining illpaid work i hereas this healthy vigorous remunerative re-munerative profession has fewer capable cap-able followers Look at Irish women with brawny arms and backs of whalebone hate hat-e masseuse they would make But I dont know a single woman oat th o-at nationality in the profession True they would be capable as far as brawn goes but you like too many others fancy onasage an art purely of muscle I thought so too for this morning I made a similar statement in regard to the lack of competition You should have seen how contemptuous contempt-uous my masseuse looked when she explained how few gave it proper study They think because they can just rub she remarked that they are masseuse but they are only rubbers She told me an expert required three I years of hard study Having herself I attended one of the great institutes of Stockholm her first year was given to gymnastics her second to anatomy and third to massage She lived for 1 2 a month in Sweden and found the 1w whole course an inexpensive one very much less in proportion to what she earns from Jt now Sucdi a course she believes is absolutely abso-lutely necessary for efficiency Her explanation sounds plausible If one Is aiming for the patronage of the best physicians one wishes to be able to consult with him knowingly about the I nature and location of the disease Half the masseuses who are called for liver trouble would not know in what 1 portion of the body tihis troublesome organ was placed Its formation func tions and ailments would be as Greek to iher Skill Counts More TItan Strength Also in the case of sprains the knowledge of muscles ligaments and tendons should be as A B C to the professional who desires to make her work of medical value That view oft of-t partially explains the lack of competition com-petition still I think there is a good opening 5n it for a healthy woman with calm nerves and fine muscles One trouble is that the United States do not afford schools of massage I Individual teachers can be obtained for a small fortune but the fine col leges for thorough training are all abroad Consequently women pick up massage in our great cities learning it casually and incompetently They are ignorant of the ifact that the chief magic depends upon a sim pie turn of the wrist more than a I plethora of strength Also that movements move-ments required to ease pain in a bruised arm are different from tihls used to knead the liver into a tract able mood It needs a year of study i to master the difference I Do you consider massage superior to physical culture asked the woman who was Obtaining all this second I hand information For reducing flesh yes My waist j I measurement was something abomin fible and now I like to have It men tioned The treatment was far more j comfortable than dieting Still < the best masseuses do not claim to reduce healthy and muscular flesh Flesh on women usually comes from one of two sources Lack of judicious exercise that rolls the tissues about the neck and waist or indigestion and poor circulation that causes bloating The art of the massuese cures both It i converts the superfluous flesh into compact tissues of muscle thereby greatly reducing ones circumference Else it kneads away the indigestion ending such a swift current flying j through the veins that it dissolves all I obstacles in its path and the puffy flesh becomes normal once more Does your masseuse befieve in oils Mine wont touch them No she thinks them useless except in the case of bruises The best qual ity of elbow grease is the only oil she advocates but she says thin women besiege her to use emolients on their necks I Brain fatigue is the fin de seicle disease dis-ease and the women who thoroughly masters the science of easing mental worry or inducing sleep to those inflicted in-flicted with insomnia will reap a goodly share of sheckels I There is one such masseuse who 3s I plying her trade 5n Washington city among the great army of statesmen Fifteen minutes she claims of massage mas-sage well bestowed on the base of a tired thinkers brain where the > nerves He put him an mentaL condition for another fray either 5n political or social so-cial combat IIARRYDELE HALLMARK I |